“It was funny when Verdi is scared
that he will turn green because that meant that he was old. But he thought that meant he was going
to become lazy. […] Then he
understood that he could still be happy even if he was green. He was still the same inside.”
– Sean,
age 8
“Verdi doesn’t want to grow old and
green! […] He gets tired and old and decides that being old and green isn’t so
bad after all! My name is
Pat. You’re 8 and I’m 83. I don’t mind being old but I hope I
don’t turn green.”
- Pat, age 83
Does anyone know what to expect as they age? Do we not have similar fears when we
are 8, 18, 28, and 88 when it comes to change? In this exchange between these two partners, an eight-year-old
boy and eighty-three-year old woman bond over this fear and pick up on the lesson
of accepting oneself through change.
If I hadn’t noted the age of the writers, would you have
guessed the age of the people writing these statements?
Sometimes we catch an eighty-three
-year-old in an eight-year-old’s body and an eight-year-old in an
eighty-three-year-old’s body.
This program reminds me every day that the young and old
have more in common than they have differences. It reminds me that we can help each other navigate life,
accept ourselves, and laugh about the changes we experience and our fears about
these changes.
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